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Board Report on the Proposed Tyne and Wear IN THE NORTH EAST TRAFFIC AREA Transport Act 2000 Proposal for a Quality Contracts Scheme in Tyne & Wear OPINION The Transport Act 2000 (TA 2000)) Section 125: Nexus fails to comply with the statutory requirements on consultation Section 124(1)(a): The proposed scheme cannot demonstrate that it would increase use of bus services because its affordability is not demonstrated Section 124(1)(b): Service quality would improve Section 124(1)(c): The proposed scheme would contribute to the implementation of the local transport policies Section 124(1)(d): The proposed scheme does not provide value for money Section 124(1)(e): The proposed scheme imposes disproportionate adverse effects on operators 1 The Quality Contracts Scheme Board Kevin Rooney, Traffic Commissioner, Chair Alan Wann David Humphrey Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Executive (Nexus) Represented by James Pereira QC, and Jack Connah, Francis Taylor Building instructed by DLA Piper Tobyn Hughes Managing Director of Transport Operations John Fenwick Director of Finance and Resources Fiona Bootle In-house Solicitor (Nexus employee lead) Tom Clarke Project Accountant Catherine Massarella Head of Quality Contracts Scheme Programme Paul Woods Chief Finance Officer, North East Combined Authority Stephen Hunter Associate, Steer Davies Gleave Edward Spencer Barnett Waddingham Arriva North East Represented by Kassie Smith QC, Monckton Chambers, instructed by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP Nicholas Knox Area Managing Director, Arriva North East Dr Gunnar Niels Partner, Oxera Consulting LLP Busways Travel Services Limited t/a Stagecoach and Stagecoach UK Bus Represented by Tim Ward QC, Monckton Chambers and Naina Patel, Blackstone Chambers instructed by Herbert Smith Freehills Robert Montgomery Managing Director, Stagecoach UK Bus Philip Medlicott Managing Director, Busways t/a Stagecoach John Hamilton Pensions Director Dr Luis Correia da Silva Partner, Oxera Consulting LLP Joseph Bell Economic Consultant, Oxera Consulting LLP Go North East Ltd Represented by Alan Maclean QC, Blackstone Chambers instructed by FieldFisher Kevin Carr Managing Director (and Chair, North East Bus Operators Association) Bojana Ignjatovic Partner, RBB Economics Unite the Union Martin Meyer John Neal Bobby Morton 2 CONTENTS Background Page 1 Overview of Quality Contracts Schemes 5 2 Role of the Quality Contracts Scheme Board 7 3 The proposed Quality Contracts Scheme for Tyne & Wear 9 The Board’s assessment of the evidence and statutory requirements including the key issues addressed within each Note: many of the key issues affect more than one criterion. The Board’s analysis is set out in the most relevant criterion and read across to the others. 4 Consultation 12 5 Public Interest Test Criterion A 22 The proposed scheme will result in an increase in the use of bus services (or reduce, arrest or reverse decline in the use of bus services) in the area to which the proposed scheme applies Issues addressed: The do minimum Affordability Risk 6 Public Interest Test Criterion B 33 The proposed scheme will bring benefits to persons using local services in the area to which the proposed scheme applies, by improving the quality of those services Issues addressed: Quality measures 7 Public Interest Test Criterion C 36 The proposed scheme will contribute to the implementation of the local transport policies of the authority or authorities Issues addressed: Accessibility “Year 11” 8 Public Interest Test Criterion D 38 The proposed scheme will contribute to the implementation of those policies in a way which is economic, efficient and effective 3 Issues addressed: Soft measures o Simplified ticketing o Customer charter o Package effect? VPA – 50 additional buses Value for money – the 3 Es 9 Public Interest Test Criterion E 48 Any adverse effects of the proposed scheme on operators will be proportionate to the improvement in well-being of persons living or working in the area to which the proposed scheme relates and, in particular, to the achievement of the objectives in criteria 1 to 4 Issues addressed: Pension scheme impact (confidential) Analysis of Boards findings on benefits vs operator impact Summary 10 Summary of the QCS Board’s Opinion 57 Appendices 1 Quality Contracts Scheme operating risks 59 2 Impact on Stagecoach pension schemes – CONFIDENTIAL 62 3 Lessons learned relevant to wider franchising proposals 65 Note: Where a footnote appears thus: 3:101:16, it refers to the transcript of the oral evidence sessions, in this case, day 3, page 101, line 16. Copies of the non-confidential transcript are available from Nexus. 4 BACKGROUND 1. Overview of Quality Contract Schemes 1.1. At present, outside Greater London, bus transport in Great Britain is deregulated, pursuant to the Transport Act 1985 (as amended) [“TA1985”]. Under the deregulated system, a public service vehicle [“PSV”] operator’s licence is required to operate most types of bus services. Once a PSV operator’s licence is obtained, if an operator wishes to run a local bus service carrying passengers for separate fares, section 6 of the TA1985 requires that the “prescribed particulars” of that local service be registered with the Traffic Commissioner. The “prescribed particulars” are set out in the Public Service Vehicles (Registration of Local Services) Regulations 1986 (as amended). For a standard (non- flexible) service these particulars include (among other things): a. the date on which the service is to start; b. the times during the year when the service will be provided; c. the principal starting and finishing points of the service; d. a description of the route together with a map; and e. a timetable and an indication of stopping places. 1.2. Under that deregulated system, routes, frequencies, fares, ticket types, vehicle types and customer service provision are at the discretion of the operator (save for wider obligations to Traffic Commissioners to operate safe and legal vehicles and reliable services). 1.3. Quality Contracts Schemes are a departure from that deregulated system. They were first introduced by the TA 2000 following the 1998 White Paper “A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone”. Following its enactment, the legislative regime has been subject to a number of amendments, with the latest being made by the Local Transport Act 2008 [“LTA 2008”]. Section 124(3) TA 2000 [AB/10] defines a Quality Contracts Scheme as a scheme under which: a. the authority or authorities determine what local services should be provided in the area to which the scheme relates and any additional facilities or services which should be provided in that area; and b. local services may only be provided in that area in accordance with quality contracts (subject to some exceptions). 1.4. It is important to emphasise the distinction between a quality contracts scheme and a quality contract. The quality contracts scheme is the overarching scheme made by the local transport authority or authorities; once in operation, a scheme will comprise one or more individual quality contracts. Each quality contract is a contractual agreement between the authority and an operator under which the operator is to provide specified services. A quality contract may include provision for payment of a subsidy by the authority to the operator (or possibly of a premium to the authority by the operator, in relation to highly profitable routes). Alternatively, as happens in London, the authority can opt to collect the revenue, take the revenue risk and purchase the services it requires through a quality contract. A quality contract may normally be entered into only after a competitive tendering process, and the usual requirement that the authority will select the tenderer(s) offering best value for money applies. 5 1.5. The Department for Transport’s Statutory Guidance on Quality Contracts Schemes published in December 2009 [“the Statutory Guidance”] explains that the aim of the LTA 2008 amendments to the TA 2000 was “to make QCSs a more realistic option for LTAs where there is a demonstrable public interest case for making such a scheme, while also ensuring appropriate safeguards to protect the legitimate interests of bus operators. This latter point reflects the fact that a QCS would have a substantial effect on the operators of existing bus services within the area of the scheme. However, LTAs are no longer required to show that a QCS is the “only practicable way” of achieving their local transport policies.” 1.6. Despite those amendments, this proposal for a QCS in Tyne & Wear is the first time any local authority has sought to take advantage of the legislation. 6 2. Role of the Quality Contracts Scheme Board 2.1. The remit and functions of the Quality Contract Scheme Board [“QCSB”] are governed by the statutory provisions contained in the TA 2000 and the associated Quality Contracts Schemes (QCS Boards) (England) Regulations 2009 [“the 2009 Regulations”]. Further insight is provided by the Statutory Guidance. 2.2. Pursuant to section 126D(1) TA 2000, in this case, the issues for the QCSB are twofold: a. To form an opinion on whether the conditions set out in the paragraphs of section 124(1) TA 2000 [“the Public Interest Tests”] are met in the case of the Proposed QCS; and b. To form an opinion on whether the authority or authorities have complied with the requirements of section 125(1) to (3) TA 2000 (that is, the notice and consultation requirements). 2.3. Where the QCSB is of the view that those conditions and requirements are not met, sections 126D(2) and (3) TA 2000 provide that the QCSB may make recommendations as to actions that might be taken in response. The QCSB is to give notice of the opinions it has formed, any recommendations it makes and its reasons (section 126D(5)TA 2000). 2.4. The issue for the QCSB is not, therefore, whether the Proposed QCS should be made. Section 127 TA 2000 reserves that decision to the relevant authority, in this case NECA.
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